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It’s a heck of a way to run a pre-election campaign. On the eve of an expected election, politicians usually spend their time playing up good news, downplaying the bad, shaking hands and kissing babies.

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Despite claims Facebook’s decline is imminent, the world’s most popular social network has revealed it now has 1.39 billion active monthly users – a 13 per cent increase over last year – and 1.19 billion mobile users – a 26 per cent increase over […]

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Brandon Bailey SAN FRANCISCO — Apple had another blowout quarter thanks to its new plus-sized iPhones, which helped the company smash sales records for the holiday season. Apple said Tuesday that it sold 74.5 million iPhones during the three months […]

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Vito Pilieci Sony Corp. will close all 14 of its Sony Stores across Canada as the company continues to struggle to reshape its business. The company made the announcement on Thursday in a memo to the employees of its stores, […]

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TORONTO — Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. spiked nearly 30 per cent Wednesday following a report that smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has offered to buy the Canadian company for as much as US $7.5 billion. Reuters news agency says […]

BEIJING — Chinese engineers have successfully tested a laser weapon that can shoot down low-flying, slow-moving drones, state media reported Tuesday. The Low Altitude Sentinel system can detect a small aircraft within a two-kilometre radius and shoot it down within […]

On Thursday Rogers Communications revealed plans to build a production studio in Toronto in partnership with Vice Media. The joint announcement was made in Toronto and both companies say they have plans to form a $100-million joint Canadian-focused venture that […]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for the invention of blue light-emitting diodes — a new energy efficient and environment-friendly light source. The Royal Swedish […]

During the CRTC’s latest “Let’s Talk TV” discussions, third-party internet provider TekSavvy announced a new partnership with Hastings CableVision company, possibly signaling that the company has plans to move into providing cable services at some point in the future. These […]

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Alison McMahon loves being an entrepreneur. At age 30, she is already working on her second business startup: TwoFold, a junior technology firm that is creating software to meet the human resources needs of small business.